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Asked: 2026-06-13T15:42:42+00:00

This piece of bash code, shows no folder name while there exists many folders.

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This piece of bash code, shows no folder name while there exists many folders.

#!/bin/bash

for file in .; do
  if [  -d $file ]; then 
    echo $file
  fi
done

the output is only .
Can you explain why?

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  1. Editorial Team

    it reads . as an array of size one and prints it for you. use something like this instead:

    for file in `ls`; do
  if [  -d $file ]; then 
    echo $file
  fi
done
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